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Doctor insights on:
Importance Of Big Plays In Football

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No:
This is pop-culture sub-scientific medicine. Your skeleton type has no relation to your tendency to develop obesity -- ultimately it's calories in (hunger, appetite), calories out (exercise, illness), and anyone who tells you otherwise is making a simple thing complicated.
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Yes:
In Japan, there is a terrible stigma to many birth defects, and even non-defects like being left-handed. Among ignorant people of any kind (and forgive me if saying "ignorant" offends the local multiculturalists), birth defects lead to superstitious fear and often ostracism -- or refusal to get needed corrections ("It's God's punishment.") Having a birth defects is hard enough without all this.
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Dopamine reward:
You can find some basic information about Dopamine and the reward system of teh brain, still sometimes called the limbic system at http://www.Addictscience.Com/drugs-and-dopamine
all the very recent excitement about food addicion is localized to activation in the nucleus accumbens, one part of the brain involved in reward and craving.
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Helps schedule:
The location is important b/c if it is not close to where you work or live, you will not go after awhile. Everyone is motivated for about 30 days and then the drop off comes. Proximity helps keep you motivated and on a schedule.
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Yes:
Krabbe is a genetic inherited condition. It is inherited in an autosomal recessive fashion. That means that for a patient with krabbe, both parents are usually carriers of the abnormal gene called galc. Those parents will have a 25% chance of having another affected child and a 50% chance of having children that are carriers.
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Fitness is important:
Even if you exercise regularly, sitting all day can increase your risk of chronic disease. So it's important to get up and move throughout the day every 30-60 minutes. If you're interested in making fitness part of your corporate culture, talk to the hr manager or wellness director. You'll need to get buy-in from the execs and support from coworkers. But it'll benefit everyone.
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Uncertain:
I sort of have an idea what you mean by "what has happened lately," but it's still a bit vague to have a discussion about. I wonder if this is really the appropriate venue for this question. I think it's really anthropology rather than medicine.
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Yes:
Domestic abuse and violence are frequent partners of ptsd, and can induce it also. Children who suffer emotional, physical, and sexual abuse are often also exposed to domestic violence in their parents. They can easily end up later with partners who repeat the abuse. Getting treatment for the ptsd helps bring these issues into awareness, so that more appropriate self-protection can happen.
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Yes, it can.:
Bullying canhave very negative, long lasting effects on one's self esteem and self confidence. If one is still struggling with the consequences of trauma such as bullying, starting therapy targeting these issues would be advisable.
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Partial:
There is a familial component, but addiction is a very complex process. Many children of addicts emerge without addictions. Nevertheless, because risk is increased, people whose family members have struggled with addiction should regard all substances, including alcohol and tobacco, with caution, practice abstinence or moderation, and seek prompt help for any concerns about over-use or dependence.
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Complicated molecule:
Hdl-c is more than a scavenger particle of cholesterol in blood vessels. It has antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, thrombotic characteristics as well. There are families of hdl, not all of which may be beneficial. Plus, HDL may change in the circulation depending on active disease states. It also exchanges triglycerides & bad cholesterol in the circulation for disposal. Treatment benefit unknown.
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Most important!:
Even with adequate calcium, vitamin d, protein, and caloric intake, a person put to bed, or studies from astronauts in a weightless environment defintively show that stressing bone is essential to prevent calcium loss vand decreased bone density. Weight bearing exercise is best, but exercise, per se, will improve bone health. Many sporting activities fill the bill!
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